People with mental illness are over-represented in the US criminal legal system. Jail
presents an optimal opportunity to provide needed mental health care as the entry point to …

The purpose of pretrial incarceration is not punishment. Yet, research demonstrates that
pretrial detention elicits similar consequences as punishment. The goal of this study is to …

What is it about spending as little as two days in jail that can transform even low-risk
defendants into recidivists? In this chapter we draw from disparate bodies of research to …

Imprisonment on remand entails the detention of persons suspected of crime. Despite
representing the most intrusive procedural measure in modern criminal justice systems, the …

Purpose The current study expands our knowledge regarding the effects of pre-adjudicatory
detention by examining the moderating role of a juvenile's race/ethnicity on the association …

The population within local jails has steadily increased, primarily due to the rise of pretrial
detention. Defendants held in pretrial detention experience the punitive nature of …

Pretrial detainees account for large portions of the total prison population in the Caribbean,
including 60% of the total prison population in Trinidad and Tobago, 56% in Barbados, 50 …

It is by now well known that in the United States, the penal system supervises almost seven
million people. This includes 4.5 million people in community corrections (Wagner and …